Mark was suggesting that the social network should be spun off
Facebook Co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in US Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) antitrust case against Meta on Tuesday. Zuckerberg said that Meta’s market share of social media is around 30%. The FTC has alleged that Meta had illegally monopolized a subset of the social media market through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, both of which the agency is seeking to unwind.
What do researchers think about Facebook dropping fact-checking?
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, while discussing Facebook’s decision to end its third-party fact-checking program, said, “We’re doing this right after the election because people think the timing is good for it.” He added, “When one party…is spreading most of the misinformation, it’s going to look like fact-checks are biased because they’re getting called out way more.”
The ification of Meta is done using X-ification
Facebook-owned social media platform Meta has announced it will end its fact-checking program and cut down its rules barring hate speech in a move allegedly aimed at appeasing President-elect Donald Trump. It has also changed its community guidelines which allow users to make blatantly anti-gay, sexist and racist posts without consequences. Meta said it would be ending its third-party fact-checking program.
The partners say that they were blindsided by the Decision to Axe Them
Facebook’s Meta fact-checking platform is terminating its partnership with Poynter Institute and the International Fact-Checking Network. The Poynter Institute and the International Fact-Checking Network are among the fact-checking partners on Meta. Notably, the Poynter Institute also operates PolitiFact, which is an Meta fact-checking partner. Meta said the move was due to it making “too many mistakes”.
Meta will end fact checking as the Silicon Valley prepares for Trump
Facebook’s third-party fact-checking tool Meta has decided to end its partnership with the platform. It will rely on a community notes program which it said would allow users to write and rate notes next to posts, instead of automated systems. Meta CEO Alexios Mantzarlis said that Meta has made “too many mistakes” in how it applied its content policies.
What a second Trump presidency means for tech
After US President-elect Donald Trump took to social media to congratulate him for winning the election, Google’s Sundar Pichai wrote on Twitter, “Thank you for the confidence in me and in the future of Google.” Amazon’s Andy Jassy said, “I’m looking forward to working with him as the FTC chair.” Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg tweeted, “Excited to be working with Trump for a second term.”
There are fake ads being put out by the super PAC financed by Elon Musk
Facebook’s ad-blocking platform Meta said it will not allow new political advertisements to be placed the week before the US presidential election, adding that political ads can still appear if purchased before the week of the election. “Yes, there is a FirstAmendment right to lie, but that doesn’t constrain Meta’s management of advertisements on its platform,” it added.
Tech giants are open-hyping their Artificial Intelligence models
Facebook’s AI chatbot can solve a Rubik’s cube in around a quarter of a second, according to a new study. The chatbot was used to solve a Rubik’s cube that had a number of threes on it. “If you give…different answer every time…something’s not right,” a human said. The first chatbot was able to answer the Rubik’s cube with 98% of the time.
Llama 3 beats many other models, according to Meta
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that Meta AI will be able to open source its 400-billion-parameter version of its artificial intelligence chatbot ‘Llama 3’ since it’s still being trained. “I think we’ll be able to open source it,” he added. “I don’t think that today many people really think about Meta AI when they think about the main AI assistants,” Zuckerberg further said.
The founder of Facebook said that the Quest3 is the better product after trying the Vision Pro
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said Apple’s latest Quest 3 headset is “the better product”. “I don’t just think that Quest is the better value, I think Quest is the better product, period,” he added. “I also can’t see how creating a slide in the Vision Pro would be less energy than doing so with mouse and keyboard,” a user tweeted.